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Well it may have been eight shooters or four shooters double-tapping or Roland of Geliad could have been there...
Or they just shot him a bunch of extra times.
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If you mean to kill someone, then you had better make sure you've done the job. I presume in this particular instance the goal was to kill the man before he could set off his bomb, in such a way that wouldn't leave him even the few moments required to squeeze a trigger.
I don't mean to come off sounding like Ender here; it's just that it seems to me that the problem here is gunning down innocents, the acceptability of which doesn't grow the more politely its done.
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: They were pretty precise though- their shots found their target and I've not heard of any stray shots or unintended casualties.
Considering that they had the guy restrained and were sitting on top of him, then I'd have been even more appalled if they'd actually missed him.
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That's something I've only heard recently- some of the news reports said the victim was shot standing up and one said he was running.
That was a week ago though- I'm lowtech just now and am getting my news from local papers (your most shocking headlines page 13 over here- if at all)
quote:Originally posted by Sol System: If you mean to kill someone, then you had better make sure you've done the job. I presume in this particular instance the goal was to kill the man before he could set off his bomb, in such a way that wouldn't leave him even the few moments required to squeeze a trigger.
But if he was being restrained, would that not have placed the officers in imminent danger of being blown up? Why restrain the suspect at all if your intent is to kill them?
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"Why restrain the suspect at all if your intent is to kill them?"
Well, I don't have even an interested amateur's knowledge of the specifics, but perhaps to prevent the activation of a dead man's switch?
Regardless of how these tactics are designed to work, I think it's clear that they were horribly misapplied, and perhaps need to be reconsidered. On the other hand, as you say, there's still no consensus about what actually happened.
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So it turns out that, rightness or wrongness of shooting people who may be about to blow up other people aside, this guy wasn't actually doing any of the things originally reported.
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